We first met Steven Shpreyregin in 2009, when he went by “Stevie” and was coaching a Seattle Parks and Recreation basketball league team. He was also 12 years old.
A basketball fanatic, Shpreyregin loved to play. But he also wanted to coach his own team.
His parents were supportive but skeptical.
"We said, ‘Stevie, it's such a good idea but I don't think they will let you do it because you are so young,’” his mother Marina said. “And he said, 'I want to try.’"
Try, he did. The 6th grader approached the league on his own and requested a coaching position.
"It was kind of scary because there were a bunch of coaches and then me, and the coaches were probably like, 'Who's this?'” Stevie said. “It was kind of weird.”
But the city granted his request, and he became the youngest coach in the Cubs division. It was a first for the league, and a first glimpse of what Shpreyregin would someday become.
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